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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...projects that a critical pedagogy approach might look at could include: Can school councils support articulate pupils who will engage as better citizens? Do they provide ‘pupil voice’, or just act as pseudo-democratic facilitators of school governance? Could going out to meet families in the homes of pupils thought of as ‘deficit’ in educational ability uncover...
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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...managed, experienced and dismantled...Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world. They have profoundly affected how we have understood...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...Project Fatih Birol interview Key RH: Roger Harrabin = Interviewer FB: Fatih Birol, Head of International Energy Agency = Participant RH: I’m now with Fatih Birol, who’s the incoming head of the International Energy Agency. I’ve known Fatih for a long time because he’s been chief economist. Fatih, can you say when you first became interested in energy? FB: I was...
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World Toilet Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Toilet Day

...managed sanitation service': a toilet, not shared with other households, that either treats or disposes of human waste on site, stores it safely to be emptied and treated off-site, or connects to a functioning sewer. Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces. Every day, over 700 children under five years old die from...
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Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...managed? What can guarantee equality and fairness? What kind of good change do you want? [Introducing Global Development] The courses can be studied independently, but we recommend you start with Introducing global development and then follow this with Introducing key global development challenges. This content is associated with the Open University courses DD870...
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Combating air pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Combating air pollution

...management. The five video tracks explore the nature of pollution arising from different forms of transport, and look at how data is interpreted and how pollutants can be minimised. To complete the album, Senior Lecturer Rod Barratt explains the choice of some of the case studies provided, and unpicks the issues that emerge, while Dr Suresh Nesaratnam gives an overview of...
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Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Introduction - Companies and financial accounting, serves as an introduction to the understanding of the legal characteristics of limited companies and how the ways in which they are financed impact on their financial reporting and role in society. Session 1 introduces sole proprietorships, partnerships and limited companies as three common forms of business entity and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Tackling systemic human and workers’ rights issues in garment supply chains
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling systemic human and workers’ rights issues in garment supply chains

...management to have better communications, empowering workers to raise and resolve grievances. In South India, we are working to address a number of workers’ rights issues in the spinning mills and garment factories. Our objective is to contribute to the elimination of exploitative practices in the textile industry in Tamil Nadu by implementing a replicable model that...
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